South East Tech Companies in the Spotlight

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Companies from Ireland South East’s thriving ICT community were in the news this week.

Scurri were highlighted by Silicon Republic as one of their 20 success stories from Start-Ups they have showcased over the last ten years. Scurri develops software for companies in the e-commerce game to manage and optimize their packaging, dispatch and delivery of goods. This extends to tracking shipments along with analytics on the data collected throughout this process. The e-commerce boom during the pandemic has presented a great of deal of opportunities for Scurri to expand. You can read the full Silicon Republic piece here:

Waterford-based virtual reality company Engage XR, formerly VR Education, featured in an Irish Times article on its expected revenue growth. The company says it expects revenue for last year to be in region of €2.4 million, up 68 per cent on the previous year. In a trading update, the group said active clients on its Engage platform, which was released on PC-supported VR devices in 2019, rose by more than a third in 2021 to 139. It said Engage now accounts for 75 per cent of group revenue.

The trading update stated:

“The group has seen a big increase in enterprise and education clients using the Engage platform, with 139 active customers at the year end representing 6,634 enterprise and education licenses. Notably, 3M, BMW Motorsport, Abbott Group, and the US department of state all became clients during the period. The group has closed multiple six figure deals for services provided via Engage in 2021 and has a strong pipeline for 2022.”

Elsewhere the nominees for the Waterford Business Awards have been announced and several of the ICT community in the county are featured. TQS Integration will be hoping to keep the Business of the Year prize within the ICT sector after Nearform had claimed the prize last year. Kollect, Flexiwage, and Konnektable Technologies are also in the running for awards. See the full list here.

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